4 Girls’ Love Recommendations for Yuri Day
Fans of the Girls’ Love (GL)/yuri genre, rejoice! Today, June 25th, is considered Yuri Day among GL enjoyers in Japan due to the lily (“yuri” in Japanese) being the flower associated with this day.
In honor of this day, we bring you some recommendations from our library’s collection of yuri titles! And while you’re at it, check out our June 2024 roundup of monthly picks as well — for this month, all of our picks are of the yuri genre.
1. Yuri Will Not Blossom at Work!
Story: Mai Yanagawa
Art: Ruri Hazuki
Publisher: Parsola Inc.
Genre: GL/Yuri
Status: Completed (9 volumes)
Access Options:
- Manga Planet Pass (readable in full)
- Points (readable in full)
- Free preview of Volume 1
Just as Rikka thinks the matchmaking event she grudgingly signed up for can’t get any more dreadful, she runs into her colleague-slash-rival Yuri Kisugi. Using Rikka’s embarrassment as leverage, Yuri compels Rikka into helping her find the perfect candidate to marry.
With the advice — rather, the unnecessary commentary — of her two other colleagues Shiori and Ruiko, Rikka goes along with Yuri’s antics with the hopes it will lead her rival away while she climbs up the company ranks. But what happens when Rikka’s nurturing tendencies coincide with Yuri’s secret vulnerabilities?…
2. Chasing After Aoi Koshiba
Story: Hazuki Takeoka
Art: FLY
Publisher: Ichijinsha Inc.
Genre: GL/Yuri
Status: Ongoing (currently 3 volumes)
Access Options:
- Points (readable in full)
- Free preview of Chapter 1
Sahoko had many friends in high school, so there was no shortage of people to catch up with at her reunion. But the one face she wants to see is missing: that of Aoi Koshiba, her classmate and first love.
A basketball team star, Aoi, caught Sahoko’s eye as an easy way to score social points. But when Aoi quits the team, an unexpected kiss pulls Sahoko closer to her than she intended to be. Aoi needs more than just a cynical social climber in a difficult home situation. She needs a true friend and something more…
3. Yurizen! Salon -Shirayuri’s Comforting Food Therapy-
Story: Kumako Nambu
Art: Miso Higashikawa
Publisher: Parsola Inc.
Genre: GL/Yuri
Status: Completed (23 volumes)
Access Options:
- Manga Planet Pass (readable in full)
- Points (readable in full)
- Free preview of Volume 1
Was it fate that led to Miiko meeting Doctor Shirayuri that one rainy day…or was it just her cramps?
Pâtissier Miiko works through little pains like the rest of us, but when her ailments begin to affect her work, there’s got to be something she can do about it. Enter beautiful, mysterious herbal medicine doctor Shirayuri, who might be the solution to Miiko’s problems — in more ways than one!
4. Bondage Play
Author: Satoru
Publisher: WWWave
Genre: Seinen
Status: Ongoing (currently 1 volume)
Access Options:
- Points (readable in full)
- Free preview
“Will you be my dog?”
What connected two girls hiding the darkness in their hearts is…a collar and a red rope…
